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The dutchman Michael Peter Smith
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The Dutchman's not the kind of man Who
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keeps his thumb jammed in the dam ..
The [C]Dutchman's not the [C/A]kind of man
Who [C9/B]keeps his thumb jammed in [C6]the dam
That [Dm]holds his dreams in
[G]But that's a secret only [C]Margret knows [C/A] [C9/B] [C/A]
When [C]Amsterdam is [C/A]golden
in the [C9/B]summer, Margret [C/A]brings him breakfast;
[Dm]she believes him
[G]He thinks the tulips bloom be[Em]neath the snow
He's mad as [Dm]he can be but [G]Margret only [Em]sees that sometimes
Sometimes she [Dm]sees her unborn [G]children in his [C]eyes[C7]
(Chorus:)
Let us [F]go to the [G]banks of the [Em]ocean
Where the [Dm]walls rise [G]above the Zeider [C]Zee [C7]
Long a[F]go, I [G]used to be a [Em]young man
But [Dm]Margret re[G]members that for [C]me [C/A] [C9/B] [C/A]
The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes
His coat and cap are patched with
The love that Margret sewed there
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
He watches tugboats, down canals
And calls out to them when he thinks
He knows the captains
'Til Margret comes to take him home again
Through unforgiving streets that trip him
Though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone
And calls out her name.
(Chorus)
The windmills whirl the winter in
She winds his muffler tighter as they sit in the kitchen
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew
He sees her for a moment, calls her name
She makes the bed up singing some old love song
A song that Margret learned when it was very new
He hums a line or two, they sing together in the dark
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margret blows the candle out
(Chorus)
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